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TIT) :. 71 try ij mm r i r? TT, err nm ! i :1L' t fc - I X I V That Charles Chaplin should be Indicted for violation of the Mann act doubtless comes as a shock to those of Hollywood and else where who think they are above ; the law. The country is full of big shots who are in the dough and think they can get away with anything they want to because of their money. Judging by reports Hollywood is full of lecherous actors and actresses who shift mates by the easy route of Ne vada or Mexico 'divorce laws and who indulge themselves often without benefit of clergy. The re cent Enrol Flynn trial and the -present Chaplin indictment may put some fear bf the law or of public opinion in the minds of the gentry there, even if it doesn't better the morals in their hearts. But there is another aspect of the Chaplin case which merits at tention. Besides the Mann act in dictment, Chaplin a n d several " others with him, are accused of violating federal laws guarantee- -ing the individual his civil rights. Involved are a .magistrate and some Beverly Hills, policemen, a radio man and one or two others. According to the report they con spired to get rid of Joan Berry, a Chaplin reject who was haunting the vicinity of his house to secure some satisfaction for her griev ance. They had her arrested, in duced her to plead guilty to a charge of vagrancy and then got her to agree to stay away from the vicinity. ; Rarely is this federal statute invoked. But if it has applica tion in the Joan Berry case, may It not be applied for protection of civil rights of persons in Mayor Hague's dominion of Jersey City, where civil rights have been ig nored notoriously? And what about reights of negroes in the south? Could the law be invoked there? You see this case has real pos sibilities of serving as a prece dent: If federal officials enforce the same law for the protection 'of the constitutional political rights of citizens over the. coun try we might really get somewhere as a democracy. Corporation Tax Lowering j Is i Prospect. By JACK. BELTi "WASHINGTON, Feb, 12 . HfP) The prospect of postwar corpora tion tax reductions which will help clear the track for business to provide jobs for returning ser vice men and war workers was held out today by two senior members of the senate finance committee, Chairman George (D Ga) and Sen. Vandenberg ' (It Mich). In separate interviews, neither saw even the glimmer of hope, .. however, that the record . tax ; bur den being shouldered by individ uals can be lightened until long after fighting ceases. ! f About all the encouragement George could hold out for a indi viduals was that congress will make the revenue, laws more -understandable. This job is going to be tackled immediately, it was promised today by . Chairman . (Turn to Page 2 Story F) Paasikivi Thought to Be Peace Envoy By ROBERT STURDEVANT STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Feb. 12 - (P)-Dr. Juhu Kusti Paasikivi, .: who negotiated the 1940 Finnish Russian peace, arrived quietly In Stockholm today on what he said : was "private business" . a few . . hours after former Finnish For elgn Minister FJjas Erkko said his ' country was "considering every t way possible in finding the road to l peace." . : . . .. I ' In r excellent humor, - Paasikivi -disclaimed that his present trip had anything to do with politics. ' In 1040 he had arrived here and gone secretly to Moscow for peace negotiations. . ' . ; ; "I expect to stay as long as pos sible - he told ' the Associated Press ' tonight,4 "but my v trip is 'purely private. 'My wife and I planned the Stockholm visit as : long ago as last August. Though I have been a politician for 40 years (Turn to Page 2 Story G) Hill Calls Flax ; Meeting in Salem " CORVALLIS, OrevFeb. 12-0P) Dr. D. D. Hill, chairman of the state flax and linexv DoardL today : called - representatives rof 13 r co operative and private flax pro- cessing plants to a conference in Salem Tuesday to discuss prob lems facing the Industry. . Dr. Hill, head of the department r,f farm crons at Oregon State col lege, -recently was elected chair man to succeed the late G. R. Hy- slop. "Board members, appointed by the governor, include L; L. Laws, state flax s plant, ; Salem; Fred Schwab Mount Angel; State Cenatrr Howard Belton, i Canby; J. tt- Chambers. Eugene. - : ' - 8 I' .,'.! POUNODP 1651 ' r ' - . , - j i , . - s IfCHTY-THIED YEAB WMkm ... .., : t 4.. " ... I ' i ... t i Indiana Candi date's Campaign Gaining . j Scott Will Seek Renomination; j Sprague to Run foi GOP Post 7 Of Delegate-at-Large It vill be a different Wendell Willkie, and a much more formidable campaigner, who will participate in the presidential joustings this year. Jlong with the an nouncement that he will file for the fpreference' bal lot in the Oregon primary, cal news in Oregon this weekend. I Some of the other items are that State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott will be, though he hasn't so announced publicly yet, a candidate for renomination; and that ex-Governor Charles A. Sprague will be a candidate for delegate-at-large to the republican national convention. Scott has intimated to friends his intention to run Juniors Win Freshman Glee With Serenade Jubilant juniors at Willamette university proudly claimed the 36th annual Freshman Glee ban ner on the stage of the gymnasium Saturday night The winning serenade song was '. "Serenade to You" ; with the words and music written by LeRoy Hale. The sen iors placed second: freshmen, third; and sophomores, If ourth." The 'winning juniors,! wbo plac ed third last year! : ran to the stage ; to claim the banner and tried to sing their song again, for the hundreds of townspeople, alumni and parents of students, who filled the gymnasium for the occasion. n " ' Serenade was the theme of the glee and was carried out iri the formations of the classes. The juniors formed two hearts and then a fraternity pin with a WU guard. While - singing their song (Turn to Page 2 Story I) British Press Arakan NEW DELHI, Feb. I2-(JF)- In heavy ' fighting on ' the Arakan front ' in Burma that has' been in progress ; for nine days, British forces have inflicted heavy casual ties on the!; constantly attacking enemy, A dm. Lord Louis Mount batten's southeast Asia command announced today. The successful defensive battles were located in the Taung Ba zaar area, with British forces con tinuing to advance in the Kala dan area some miles south of the village of that name, and . in the Tiddim area, where a hill feature was occupied by the British. . American - trained Chinese- in the Hukawng valley to the north are' fighting eight miles north east i of Taipha Ga, where they ambushed a Japanese party and killed 34 of the enemy, it was an nounced. 1 '; ' i ' J r RAF and American heavy bombers have I continued their raids on the Papanese - held port of Akyab, on Prome and else- where. Fight ' iMUHon Dollar Club Coming Here Tuesday Here are the members ef that nationally-farmed COIN IHlioa Dollar club Which will lend its eclor to ; the Marion county fourth war loan vlci;ry rsl!y Tuesday night La the Salem tJ.h school asliicri-n. From the left they Include Maestro Jose j: It Campletra and the erchestra; at the nvlcrorhone, Zlxr garet Carroll and Master of Ceremonies Johnny Carpenter; at the extreme rijht. Cob lie Coy and J'a - tidea.' ; . - ; '- 23 PAGES that is the big item, of politi O a gain, and! to date there 1m no indication that he will have . op position in the republican ranks, nor serious opposition - from the democratic f direction. ' M As to Wendell Willkie, th same shock! of unruly black hair and powerful though rotund figure which were: in evidence in the 1940 campaign f ere visible In Portland again on Saturday. The voice was familiar except that there was no evidence of strained vocal cords. and phrases were not so often telescoped.'! But when Willkie made the cam paign circuit in 1940 he was tense and self-conscious and worried looking. , He was an i amateur in the ring with "the champ. Now be is a seasoned scrapper in the political arena. About alljhat can happen tof a candidate is defeats he look thai and lived through it Now he is relaxed, poised; before a crowd i he lean take any question and fire back a well-rounded and unequivocal answer. He can come (Turn o Page 2 Story A) kins9 Son I Is Killed In M arshalls i ; i WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -(JP) President fRoosevelt tonight noti fied Harry L. Hopkins that his son, Stephen, 18, has been killed in action in the Marshall islands and buried at isea. ; ' 'f Hopkins! is an adviser and close friend of the chief executive. - Mrs. Htpkins, confirming re ports of the death, said no details were available. Stephen was a child of Hopkins first marriage. Hopkins-was en route south by train to try to recover his own strength and health, which have been taxed by long and - recur rent illnesses. - ,;- r-::. The president. Mo. Hopkins said, sent pier husband a "beauti fully worded" telegram telling him of Stephen's death. She said the chief executive asserted that We do not know the details, but we will be prouder of him when we do,j , ...'.fl'i-;.; H A The president and Hopkins have been dose friends, and the latter made his home In the White House for many months. Hopkins has two other sons in the service,'' David, an officer on an aircraft carrier,' and Robert, serving with the army in Italy. He also has a daughter," Diana, 12, by a second marriage. He was j married ; third time in 1942.- r j Hop! Salem, Orfcn. Sunday Momlrag, GAR MUs Ceremony On Lincoln Birthday SPRINGFIELD, CL, Feb. U ()- For the first rears there was member ef the Grand Army ef the Repmb Ue present today. at , birthday anniversary ceremonies at the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. ' Hiram - Shamate - of nearby miverten, state eommaader of the GAR. and C. R. Davis of Springfield, only .Sangamon eoonty sorvtvors of the veter ans group, were unable to aft' tend because of the weather. They were, however, represent ed by Harvey Flock, command er of the Sons ef Veterans, whs spoke fat behalf of the GAR. ' Reds Reach : Luga; Smash In Ukraine 40 Towns, Hamlets Fall; Batetskaya Junction Taken By TOM YARBROUGH LONDON, Sunday, Feb. 13-ff) The red army has reached the suburb! of the rail station of Luga, 80 miles south of Leningrad on the road to southern Estonia and Latvia J while in the Ukraine 4200 nazis were killed yesterday and 70 tanks wrecked in the, desperate German effort to rescue the rem nants f ten trapped nazi divisions near the middle Dnieper river, Moscow announced today. More than forty towns and ham let wfre captured in : the f north th 'Russians fought in the: out- sknHs Sbf Luga andJS mllesta the east captured the rail junc tion of: Batetskaya and cleared the Leningrad -Batetskaya-Novogorod railroad. - r""::':- Luga. midway between Lenin grad and Pskov, is an important German . defense '. point protecting the axis retreat into Estonia , and Latvia! along, three railroads Join ing atfPskov. - . V The fall of the town appeared imminent as the Russians wheeled in through the heavy snow. The Moscow midnight communique, recorded by the soviet monitor, said that in this northern area the Germans "suffered big losses in men and materials." In one sector alone a German strongpoint was reduced by a sudsJ den blow and 600 Germans killed. Five long-range guns, five anti aircraft gtmv 16 trucks and. other material were captured, the com munique said, ; - t "Extremely .fierce" 'fighting in the Ukraine marked the : final stage of the battle to crush the survivors of the ten trapped nazi (Turn to Page 2 Story D). ' Body Recovered From Liner Crash MEMPHIS, .Feb. 13 -(Sunday) UFi-The - US engineers reported early today that the unidentified hpdy of one of : the 24 persons killed when the American airliner plunged into the Mississippi river Thursday night . was found at o'clock (CWT) this morning. The? body, that of a lieutenant, was stni intact Shattered pieces of -the plane, some weighing as much as .300 pounds, were dredged up during the day along with some sacks of maJL baggage, a woman's pho- tograph, a slipper and a. sock. Ftbrasrj 13. 1944 iLlissing J 3 Sgi. "Weldon G. M a r 1 1 n, sob, of , Mrs. Elva U. Martin, 1S3S North i Gemmereial street, . has been i missing since the Flying Fort ; ress of which he was a crew member participated In a mis T slon . over Germany on January 29; .bis ; mother ; was notified Saturday. A graduate of Salem . high . school with the class of 4 . 19S6, he had a wide aequaint- i ance In the capital city although he was a Portland chef at the ; time of his enlistment in March, :, 1942 Ho graduated as an aerial I gwmtr from , Harlingen army gunnery school. Shepherd field, . Texas, In September, . 1942. I Members of" h t s family' here - received a T-mail letter from ?; him last Thursday. Coordinators mm oniDlete ' -N Ypiith Program I By ISABEL CHILDS ; Announcing in almost the first breath of its first public utterance that; there should be a more com plete recreational program for the city's boys and girls than that now offered, the new Salem "youth ac tivity, coordinating committee" to day; steals the spotlight from, or rather shares it. with planning and politics. .. ' . ; It is involved in planning be cause the program it sponsors and would like to see adopted is a long time scheme, one which may best grow to maturity in postwar years because of interest and work of youth during the war period. 3 Whether it wants to or not the committee has already cast its hat into the political ring because it has i recommended a memorial to the city council including a re quest for an enabling act which would allow the council . to exer cise! its legal : right to levy up to one-half mill, tax , for the youth program. - ? - . v As to the organization of the committee. It did not spring full blown from Che brow of ' the Sa lem Council of Social Agencies, although it has its foothold there. The Salem Council of Social (Turn to Page 2 Story -J) ' . .... KedTSponsored anize ; h By JUDSON O'QUINN LONDON, Feb.M2-(ff)-The soviet-sponsored.": Union or Polish Patriots already has ' organized a national council Inside Poland, the Moscow radio disclosed i tonight, adding a new climax to the open conflict between Russia and the present Polish, government-in-ex-ne.i ' ri- ::r . The disclosure that the Union of Polish Patriots, organized in Mos cow, had set up operations in Po land followed an editorial in the communist J part y ' newspaper, Pravda, attacking the Polish re gime in London anew and Imply ing J that a government acceptable to the Soviets might be establish ed In Poland. -I The Moscow broadcast said that the council established by the Un ion ' of ... Polish Patriots Included representatives of the Polish peas ants party,- the socialist workers part y v , and "other democratic groupings, ; but gave no details as to how or where the organiza tion was accomplished. - 7calhcr - v Catarday maximum temper- stare 45, minimum ZS. Clver 4 feet. . Talr Sunday and lie n Jay. Lli'Je chac;e la terrpcrat-re. Ore No. 277 Follow Up Bay . Raid Pas-de-Calais Assaulted by USiLilierators . ByrW. W. HER CHER t LONDON, J Sunday; Teb. 13 (JP) Heavy bombers of the RAF droned across the; channel to ward the continent last night in a riughty procession, following up a daylight, assault fey Am erican Liberators on the French Pas de Calais invasion! coast, v ; The British bombers! took 45 minutes to cross southeastern England and were in heavier force than in recent nights, watchers said. y 1 ' . I j ; :y ' .W 'The - American operaUon main tained the stepped-up pace set by the Eighth air force for more than two weeks." i: -'-' The four - engined bombers crossed the channel under a roar ing ' umbrella- of 1 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters and returned without loss to complete success fully their 13th operation in 16 daysTThe fliers' reported they did not see a single -enemy fighter in the sky. w . , - ' .j. ... -.wo small formations of RAF Mosquitoes also pounded military targets in northern France under cover wof Typhoons and .these too T2n to Page 2 Story E) ; Burns Fatal For LadDeriied By Hospitals PORTLAND, Feb. lZ-pj-Four-teen-year-oldr William. jHaeberle, who lay seriously . burned for nearly an hour before a hospital could be found, that would admit him, died here today, f : The youth, burned while flee ing from roaring flames! that raz ed a small frame house, within 15 minutes, was turned down by six hospitals, which said they had- no vacant beds, ambulance attend ants said. , -;-.-;f,. Dr. Donald W. Nickelsen, who treated the boy in! Portland Gen eral hospital, said the delay might have been partially responsible for; his death. "That boy's chances of (recovery depended to a great extent upon the rapidity with which, treatment was given, he said. We have saved patients be fore when burned that badly if quickly treated." John W. Green,; 14, cousin of the dead boy, also Was burned ser iously. His father, Melvln . E. Green, and .. a 5-year-old stepson suffered minor burns. . J - . I f Cause of .the fire, whkh broke out while the family was sleeping, was not immediately determined. Prlc 5c Primaries Hostile Gdn&e&Bcitfer&tt From FDR Legislative Prdgram r By HOWARD FUEGER; ,i WASHINGTON, Feb.! 12-Vft1n one short month a hostile . con gress has all but battered the life out of : a - home-front legislative program President Roosevelt laid before congress January 11 as bis pattern to-speed the peace. . " ; A aeries of rebuffs and snubs has left the administration on the ropes. If President Roosevelt be comes a fourth, term nominee his enthusiasts, in mentioning recent events, " will - have: to talk about what be asked for not what he got .t i- - There have been only two bright rays for the White House from Capitol hill -veterans rehabilita tion legislation and control or war profits and one of those is cloud ed: by a tax bill that falls far short of ' the president's ! demand.' - ;-. ; Here s the lineup: 1 -. "I On January II rand fin subse quent messzzzs the president asked congress k for, (I);a nation-: al service act to conscript labor, (2) a realistic tax till to help fi nance the war, (3) a iood price law subsidies to batten', down the cost of living, (4) contract rcnesotiatloit lawito control war profiteering, " (5) reenactecnt cf price control laws (8) federal ab szr.lzt tallots fcr armed rcrvlce fe Urges Break Through Nazis' Thinned Out Lines to Crush . Enemy on Northward March ; ' , Hj George Tucker . ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Feb. 12 (AP)BIudHipatlered fifth army troops grimly ened their grip on the Anzio beachhead tonight as their commander, Lt. Gen. Blark 7. dark, assured them ihzl applies were arriving for them and that their victori ous rnareh on Rome was "sure to come.'.' Their, hold on the shell-pitted battleground was firmer. ; than at any time in the past 72 hours after a German attack was repulsed with the aid of warships which ranged boldly inshore and shelled the nazi tfbns. n;i'UVUi" - Landing of supplies for. the beachhead was carried out successfully despite he a vyO shells, and a slight break in the weather gave 'promise that over whelming allied air superiority might soon return to the aid of the hard-fighting ground forces. In a message to all t his troops along the western Italian front, including those who slugged out limited gains , "in the Cassino sec tor, Gen. Clark urged his men to break through the Germans' "thinned; out lines' and to crush the enemy on their way north. Supplies were arriving at the beachhead, Gen. Clark said, which would give the allied forces there the opportunity to kill Germans "in large numbers." ; . (A British broadcast, record ed by CBS, quoted a British war correspondent as saying that the German radio was boasting that the beachhead force soon would have to take to boats. Such Ger man statements never have been "within miles of the ' truth," the correspondent said, adding that the troops-were facing "their job with- sober confidence.) ; 1 V Issuing' his message soon after his return ; today from a visit to the beachhead, Gen. Clark told the troops who have : been "bat tering down a week-long series of wennan counter atiacKs mere that their landing was a "splendid ac complishment" and added: "Tea ; caught the ' enemy by surprise forcing him to effect a sadden and expensive change of plan and to rash forces from northern ' Italy, from France. ' from the Balkans and from the Cassino front to attempt to meet the' emergency yea have, creat ed." ; V.-U'" .He commented the "dogged de termination" of the troops fighting in the mountains of the Cassino Garigliano front.' - a ' , . -In, - the beachhead area it was apparent that mud which bogged down the nazi armor, and the de termined resistance "of the allied troops had forced the Germans to pause and regroup. An allied spokesman - declared i that the beachhead front lines "have re (Turn to Page 2 Story B) Lt. Christenson ' Downs Jap Plane' Seeond Lt. Russell Chrlstensea of Lyons was credited with downing one enemy plane tn an' attack on the Japanese base at Babanl Thorsday. an Associated. Press story by Tern Haagiand reports. Thirty-three enemy planes In all ' were destroyed - and four allied aircraft were lost In fear raids that day. i voters, 7) veterans rehabilitation. legislation.. - j 0 .' Here's the box-score: Taxes The president and the treasury asked for a 110,500,000, 000 new tax bill to fight the war and . inflaUon. Instead, last week congress sent the White House a revenue act calling for- $2,315, 200,000, a bill he denounced in advance as failing to meet the test of realism. . , , 4 . , . War profits After a tough fight In; the senate, finance com mittee, congress , approved; with modifications a contract renego tiation law to strip war . manu facturers of excessive: profits. But the law makers tied it into the tax bill. A vetapf. the tax pro posals would take the contract re negotiation clauses with it. , . -? Subsidies With the adminis tration forces In full! retreat, the censresj voted f cr the second time this week to outlaw; food subjl dies, long regarded" as the nki istration's No. 1 device for hold ing in check the cost of retail living. : Administration senators expect a veto and hope to pre vent congress from overriding it National service . A bill which would give the president power to (Turn to Tzzt 2 Clcry C) Bnae ' . 93 Per Cent Series E Bond; Complete i Series E bond sales the only kind that counts for anything at this stage of the campaign in the approximate amount of $74,000 were reported ; Saturday to the Marion county war finance com mittee. For one day's business that is an excellent figure. But there are only two business days left in the fourth war loan campaign, and those sales brought the total up to only $1,493,000 which is 93 per cent of the $1,604,000. On sales of all types of bonds the county, announced Chairman Jesse J, Gard, is over the original goal with a total. of $4,545,000. or' 105 per cent; but the committee, back "at the outset of the cam paign, set its own goal at $5,000,- 000 and is still struggling toward it ; ; ' - . k Allocations.! including , Portland General,, .Ei e c t r i c company's $72,500, Southern Pacific's $48,S70 and others by Pacific Greyhound, General . Petroleoum, Mountain States - Power,! Warner Brothers theatres, Texas company, Union Oil company. Shell Oil company and Tidewater Associated Oil company helped to bring the total up to the present figure; for that matter more big allocations are still to come in. 1 But the real fight is to get, up : (Turn to Page 2 Story II) - Allied Airmen . Continue Raids, 43 Planes i ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.' IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sunday, Feb. lS-CP)-Allied air men continuing their attacks on the Japanese defense bastions in the south Pacific destroyed 43 planes in attacks on Rabaul, New Britain, and Kavieng, New Ire land, : the high i command an nounced today.: . Thirty - two of .the Japanese planes were shot down over Ra baul, target, of almost daily as saults by aircraft from Adm. Wil liam F. Halsey's Solomon islands bases. We lost four planes here. The attackers hit the Kavieng airdrome with, 167 tons of bombs, with 174 tons were dropped on the Vunakanau and Tobera airdromes at Rabaul, - producing destruction which was blacked out from .the attackers' view by smoke. . The allied communique also said that -American marine patrols at Borgen bay,- in the Cape Glou cester area in northwestern New Britain, have found many bodies of Japanese who apparently,' died of -starvation and disease. The experience of the marines here duplicated that of the Aus tralians in the Huon peninsula. New '.'. Guinea,: campaign, where hundreds, of Japanese were found dead of starvation due to the al lied activities In severing the en emy's barge supply lines. Other. allied planes attacking the north coast of New . Britain bombed a 1003 ton freighter and strafed enemy camps. GesTsiana Mobilize Lien Up to 69 ; STOCSCC'li Feb. lV) Tie Ecrlla ariemaca rress u ccr.cf I ths cilUiry call cp cf all tztn s slZl net mcll". : J ia the classes cf ITZi to IZ22, those -belvrr:a 51 and J years IX All -rc!i ir.ca were Crez'.:' pre-f-t tl;r: i'rzi fcr r: ' - lag. before - re'-: :.ry 15. " ggj r;rc .' " j x :. a new t i ef ir.Iir's far'.Lcr t r AT.